On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:13, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 14:24, Randy Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You could develop your pages in Open Office (resident on your PC), then
>> export the files to Mediawiki format,
>
> Or in any text editor in Mediawiki markup, and just paste into the
> page. You will no doubt want to print a cheat sheet, or save one to
> your hard drive.
>
>> and copy and paste them into your
>> desired wiki page. (in some cases you can directly import the files into the
>> page.)

I use the text editor approach, combined with the It's All Text
Firefox extension.  My preferred text editor allows syntax
highlighting of wikitext, making it more obvious when I've made a
mistake in my wikitext (and helping count braces in my templates).
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors

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